THURSDAY 27/05 MORNING SESSION 9:00 Welcome to LGM 2010 Louis Desjardin + Femke Snelting 9:30 Extending Python for Speed Martin Renold Python is a nice high-level language, but most graphic applications have some code that must run programming, raster http://mypaint.info fast at any price. Everyone knows that it is possible to write /C++ extensions for Python. Not image everyone knows that it can be done quite clean, simple and DRY. 10:00 A first outline for a UI for a fully peter sikking The (eternally) imminent integration of GEGL into GIMP—or rather, fully basing GIMP on GEGL— raster image, http://mmiworks.net/blog GEGLed GIMP holds great promises. Lossless editing and unlimited re-adjustment and reordering of programming steps are only the beginning of it. However, there is big gap between the world of the nuts and bolts of the GEGL graph and nodes, and the world of GIMP users doing high-end image manipulation towards artistic results. User interface bridges this gap and peter sikking, principal interaction architect at m+mi works and lead interaction architect of GIMP, will outline in this talk the UI principles that can unlock the power of GEGL in a GIMP context. 10:30 Featuring Nathive image editor Marcos Diaz Nathive is a libre software image editor, focused on usability. The project keys and goals will be raster image, http://nathive.org and its Python port listed, and since the project is currently being ported from C to Python, this process will be detailed programming and we'll delve into some programming aspects. 11:00 Writing GIMP scripts and plug- Akkana Peck Much of the power of GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation program, comes from its plug-in raster image, scripting http://shallowsky.com ins architecture. Most of the functions you use in GIMP, including everything in the Filters menu, are http://gimpbook.com implemented as plug-ins. Happily, writing GIMP plug-ins is easy. This talk will show you how to write new plug-ins or extend existing ones in two languages: Script-fu and Python 11:30-14:30 WORKMEETINGS, BOF, LUNCH, WORKSHOPS AFTERNOON SESSION 14:30-16:00 short talks Collaborative intellectual Jose David Cuartas Correa [video talk] I would like to made a video conference to show how when we put together Free free culture, http://sologicolibre.org/en/ property software, free contents and open hardware, we get something that we can call: "Collaborative collaboration intellectual property". PureDyne Aymeric Mansoux Puredyne is the USB-bootable GNU/ for creative media. It is a live multimedia, linux http://puredyne.goto10.org distribution, you don't need to install anything. Simply boot your computer using the live USB or distribution https://launchpad.net/puredyne CD/DVD and you're ready to start using software such as , Supercollider, Icecast, , Fluxus, Processing, , Gimp, and much more. UpStage - an open source web- helen varley jamieson Artists use UpStage to collaborate in real-time on live performances for an online audience, using multimedia http://www.upstage.org.nz based platform for the web interface to manipulate graphics, animations, text, text2speech, audio, web cams and http://www.creative-catalyst.com cyberformance drawing, creating live performances that are accessible to anyone with a standard browser and internet connection. The application, which is open source and written in Python, sits on a server so there is no need for artists or audience to download or install anything. Open Source project to enable Susan L. Spencer This presentation invites developers to help create a suite of open source software to create and vector, workflow, fashion design using open data modify clothing patterns in open data formats to match an individual's body measurement and fashion formats. generate customized patterns as printable files. Current applications are proprietary, do not interoperate, and are expensive. An open source solution would enable individual and small label designers to create and provide custom sized patterns without purchasing high-cost . How people use opensource Wang Lingzheng In the past, a lot of people in China didn't know opensource software and opensource graphics, publishing, design http://blog.artintern.net/blogs/index/wanglingzheng graphics in China and book these people even conclude some young graphics designer who gratuated from Art Academy, as about the lgm meeting well as some traditional library worker don't know opensource software,library theory and practise needs opensource too. SO, opensource graphics Introduction is great in China. At present,more and more people in China realize that opensource software is so important. Multi-touch support in Steve Conklin A quick presentation about the current state of multi-touch support in Ubuntu, and the road map for the next release 16:00-16:30 BREAK 16:30 Baroque Dreams: Live Barry Threw This talk will cover the issues of bringing live interpretive performance back into electronic music multimedia, http://www.barrythrew.com Multimedia Performance, and multimedia performance culture. Issues of technology obsolesce, interface, types of users, performance Interpretive Culture, and Open hardware, and historical cultures patterns will be discussed. Ways the open source community can Source Software help build tools that will be useful to the video or music artists interested in interpretive performance of works will be suggested. 17:00 Using and teaching free Lila Pagola This talk shares the experience of some pieces of design made completely with workflow, education http://www.nomade.org.ar/sitio software, being a final user and (books, booklets, and others) for a team working in Córdoba, Argentina from 2005 to present. The not dying in the attempt. option for free software try to “align” poetics and politics, being coherent with the topics communicated by the pieces (free software and culture, patents, DRMs, etc.), and representing an “live example” of viable alternatives to privative and/or illegal software for graphic design. 17:30 Designing with Free tools in an Nicu Buculei, Martin Sourada The Fedora Design Team is an Open Community consisting from people from all around the world design, collaboration http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork Open Community: experiences collaborating on various projects, from desktop wallpapers to posters, icons, website and from the Fedora Design Team application mockups, CD/DVD art and more. Everything created by the team is licensed freely, according with Fedora's foundations: Freedom, Friends, Features, First. 18:00 How to get contributors to your Hong Phuc Dang There are so many great F/LOSS projects out there, that get me excited. And we have millions of free culture, http://foss.vn, Free/Libre/Open Source project people studying IT, design, communication, translation and many other subjects in the world. collaboration http://2009.gnome.asia from Vietnam and Asia Everyone could contribute to F/LOSS. So, when I sometimes read about projects I cannot believe that many are lacking contributors. As a user and small and humble contributor I am happy about the many improvements in the F/LOSS world, but I am selfish and I would like to see moving things forward even more. So, I figured out that I want to support projects, that are looking to get more contributors. 18:30 How to Run an Art School on Florian Cramer, Aymeric Open Source plays an increasingly important role in arts and design through Web applications and education, free culture http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/ Free Software / Open Source Mansoux, Michael Murtaugh open licenses. The Networked Media design programme of the Piet Zwart Institute has, for years, employed Open Source more radically for all course work, on servers and clients, with a focus on the command line, coding and FLOSS philosophy to foster rethinking of media instead of off-the- shelf design. 19:00 END

FRIDAY 28/05 MORNING SESSION 9:00 Diffusion Curves in vector Jasper van de Gronde Diffusion Curves are an exciting and flexible new primitive for creating images with smooth color vector http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Diffusion_Curves drawings transitions. However, the best method to display diffusion curves so far is to rasterize them, which is unsuitable for use with SVG for example. I will present the basic idea behind Diffusion Curves, an alternative interpretation and an approach to creating a purely vector based representation (discussion welcome). 9:30 GNU LibreDWG - a free Felipe Corrêa da Silva Sanches LibreDWG is a library to handle files in the DWG format used by AutoCAD. I will present a general vector, collaboration http://gnu.org/software/libredwg software library to handle DWG overview of the history of the project explaining how did the creation of a students free software files from AutoCAD. group at University of São Paulo resulted in the development of a new and relevant free software library (that is listed in the FSF High Priority Projects List) and how did it become approved as an official GNU package. 10:00 Device Colour Management Kai-Uwe Behrmann Devices seldom agree about colours by default. Rgb (red/green/blue) colour spaces in digital colour management http://www.oyranos.org cameras or analog cameras are different from laptop and desktop monitors and different from inkjet printers if they do not even support only a Cmyk (cyan/magenta/yellow/key-black) colour space. The talk gives an overview of how these diverging colours can be brought together by the configurable Oyranos Colour Management System on a system level. It will further discuss what is required by applications to make use of the provided ICC profile information. 10:30 Color Management and other Hin-Tak Leung The team has a few on-going or soon-to-complete development efforts which would colour management http://www.artifex.com, new developments in be of great interests to the free graphics community. We have done some major work with ICC- http://www.ghostscript.com Ghostscript profiles which is about to be merged into trunk for release in August (hopefully). We have also integrated as a font-renderer, and made under-the-hood improvements in the form of clist and going towards multi-threaded rendering. In the embedded/small-memory-footprint application area, we have been working on . These are just a few highlights. 11:00 Best practises for Nicolas Spalinger Best practises for designing/releasing/maintaining/packaging open fonts. A review of dos and don'ts , design, http://planet.open-fonts.org designing/releasing/maintaining/ based on real world examples and community experience. Various tips and tools for authors, distribution http://scripts.sil.org/OFL packaging open fonts designers and contributors to open font projects to DTRT (Do The Right Thing) in the complicated http://pkg- area of open fonts. fonts.alioth..org/ https://launchpad.net/~fonts 11:30-14:30 BOFs, WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, LUNCH AFTERNOON SESSION 14:30-16:00 Short talks Designing elastic Ricardo Lafuente Traditional font file formats - PS Type 1, TrueType, OpenType - have been historically constrained typography, vector, http://tinkerhouse.net to simple point-by-point representations of . While this approach apparently makes things design simpler, it restricts one's creativity to their own skills in point manipulation. Lettersoup is an attempt to propose a different way to design and manipulate typefaces, away from the conventions of traditional type design software. Another year of Open Source OSP OSP (Open Source Publishing) is a multidisciplinary, multi-national design collective based in design http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/ Publishing Brussels. Since 2006 they have been experimenting with Free Software for design. In this talk, OSP tours you at the speed of light through work done since LGM 2009. Font design and features for Denis Moyogo Jacquerye This presentation will discuss the requirements of orthographies for African languages in Latin typography http://www.africanlocalisation.net/en/fonts African languages scripts and shows how to implement these with modern fonts technologies. Good practices, mistakes and evaluation of fonts for African languages with high requirements will be discussed. The presentation will also showcase various font projects that are benefitting from the input, feedback and work of the Open Source community. 's Font Initiative Dave Crossland is a longtime contributor to the libre graphics community (libart, Ghostscript, typography Advogato) and launched Spiro at LGM 2007 in Montreal. Now working for Google, he is leading an initiative to sponsor libre font projects and services. This talk by Dave Crossland, a sponsored type designer, will outline the sponsorship opportunity for type designers wishing to design fonts that can be shared and collaboratively improved. It will also offer one of the first public demonstration of a related Google font project. Content centric architecture and Eric Schrijver In traditional information architectures, content is the thing that is passed through the system. the design, workflow distributed versioning definition of the system is solid. the content is arbitrary, replaceable, disposable. It should be the other way around. Stani Michels Phatch is a user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Renamer with a nice raster images, Python http://photobatch.stani.be/ graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners, … and do much more actions in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. 16:00-16:30 BREAK 16:30 Designing a better Tomorrow. Mirko Tobias Schaefer Making the world a better place has been a powerful engine of ingenuity and has driven design, reflection http://www.mtschaefer.net/ How design is informed by technological development from Claude Chappe's signalling system to Samuel Morse's telegraph, metaphors, images and from Paul Otlet's information indexes to Ted Nelson's hyperspace. Information technology in associations of social progress general and the World Wide Web and its label Web 2.0 in particular tell a legend of empowering users and enabling participation. 17:00 Elements of Typographic Christopher Adams Type is a Tool. This talk aims to give an inspiring overview of excellence in the typographic arts, with typography, free culture http://techne.raysend.com/ Freedom: Open Sources of a special emphasis on fonts and world-class book design using free software. Extraordinary Design 17:30 : Designing Typefaces Dave Crossland This talk presents the techniques and software I used and developed for creating the Cantarell font, typography http://abattis.org/cantarell/ Using Only Free Software and looks at the future of free software type design. During the last 2 years I undertook the prestigious MA Design programme at the University of Reading, England. The programme is divided into two projects, a theoretical dissertation and a practical type design. I wrote about the nexus of free software and typeface design, and using only free software designed the typeface Cantarell. 18:00 sK1 Project: Past, Present and Igor Novikov The project has been started in 2003 as a Sketch fork. Since that time project became an award- lay-out, vector http://sk1project.org/ Future winning Open Source software and supports a lot of unique and professional publishing features. This year is a serious milestone in project development - global refactoring, multiplatform versions etc. 18:30 Laidout and Desktop Publishing Tom Lechner Discusses Laidout, a desktop publishing program that I use primarily to make cartoon books. It can lay-out, workflow http://www.laidout.org lay out images and gradients (including mesh gradients) onto booklets, as well as onto arbitrary polyhedral surfaces. Other novel features include controlled multiple image import, and image mesh warping. I hope to debut multitouch features (via Xinput2) at LGM. Discussion will also include experiences with various open source software for related tasks. 19:00-22:00 LGM DINNER

SATURDAY 29/05 10:00 Writing brush engines for fun Lukáš Tvrdý Among free software graphics application, is unique in that its painting system is plugin- bitmap images, plug- http://lukast.mediablog.sk/log and profit! based: all Krita brush engines are plugins. Starting with the sumi-e hairy brush engine I worked on ins, programming during the 2008 Project, I continued writing over half a dozen experimental, funny and useful brush engine for my Master's Thesis at the VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava. This presentation will start with a live demonstration of these brush engines. The second part will be more technical: I will give an introduction into the art of writing brush engine plugins for Krita. It's easy and fun and not difficult at all! 10:30 Generative Node-based Design Frederik De Bleser, Tom De NodeBox 2 is an open-source application that generates visual output based on programming code, games, Python http://beta.nodebox.net/ With NodeBox 2 Smedt, Lucas Nijs a node-based interface or natural language (i.e. English). In the user interface you connect nodes (building blocks) together to create interesting visuals. Nodes can be opened to examine or edit the (Python) source code. AI techniques allow the system to evaluate written text and transform it into nodes using analogy and conceptual association. 11:00 TBC TBC 11:30 Peter linnel Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to lay-out http://www.scribus.net/ Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. 12:00 Foundation, past and Ton Roosendaal Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems animation future under the GNU General Public License. Ton Roosendaal presents work on Blender the past year, current status and plans for the future. http://www.blender.org/ 12:30-15:30 BOFs, WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, LUNCH SATURDAY AFTERNOON 15:30-16:30 Short talks How I made a free New Zealand Marcus Holland-Moritz In 2009 I made a trip to New Zealand where I took about 15,000 photos. After I spent weeks http://nzbook.mhxnet.de coffee-table book using lots of selecting and processing the good shots and getting very positive feedback from my friends, I Free Software decided to try to make a book about my trip. I had already been using Scribus in the past, but not for anything beyond very simple one-page layouts. Trying to figure out how to do a whole book took me a while, not only working with (an on) the tools, but also reading a lot about design, typography and more esoteric stuff like colour management. 48 Hour Film: Producing a 5- Jason van Gumster In the summer of 2009, we participated in the 48 Hour Film Project for Richmond, Virginia. The animation, collaboration http://projects.handturkeystudios.com/rva48h minute animated short with free goal of teams in the 48 Hour Film Project is to produce a 4-7 minute short film over the course of and open source software 48 hours. Although this contest is targeted at live action filmmakers, our team decided to take on http://www.48hourfilm.com/richmond/2009.php the huge (and somewhat crazy) task of producing an animated film in that time period... and we did it with the help of free and open source software. With an international team of 24 artists and technicians, we used Blender, GIMP, and Inkscape for producing art and assets, for sound mixing, Subversion for revision control, and MediaWiki for project collaboration. The New Folk Tradition: Pete Ippel I discuss revivalist trends in art with relationship to the hand-made and folk tradition, specifically in design, culture http://peteippel.com Aesthetic and Community fiber arts. Innovative artists, having digital fluency, easily navigate networked communities and Resonance between Open collaborate openly. By comparing pixels to patchwork, vectors to stitches, bitmaps to patterns, and Source Graphics and Fiber Arts layers to quilts, they investigate the overlap among a variety of disciplines. Digital workflow Alexandre Prokoudine State of the art digital photography workflow on Linux and how finally makes it possible. digital photography, http://prokoudine.info on Linux with darktable bitmap images 16:30-17:00 BREAK 17:00 Icon Workflows with Inkscape Jakub Steiner Learn how to worry less about the filesystem and more about your artwork in this overview of design, workflow, web http://jimmac.musichall.cz Inkscape workflows. Various details of the workflow and tools is discussed on specific examples from projects including but not limited to Firefox, GNOME and Moblin. 17:30 Mozilla Open Web Graphics Paul Rouget A status update by Paul Rouget, Mozilla's lead Tech Evangelist in Europe: the status quo of html5, web, video http://blog.mozbox.org/ svg, css3 and more. 18:00 The Open Colour Standard: ginger coons Jumping off of previous discussions about the barriers preventing professional designers from colour management http://opencolour.org/ Physical colour for F/LOSS using F/LOSS graphics programs, this talk will present the Open Colour Standard. OCS is a project intended to add precise colour to the F/LOSS graphics workflow. It aims to make professional colour management a reality for F/LOSS graphics. 18:30 Inkscape for everybody Andy Fitsimon Inkscape's popularity is growing day by day. How do we help new users master the tool? How do vector, collaboration http://andy.brisgeek.com/ we resource these users and welcome them to participate in the community and contribute their art, their bug reports and their ideas to help us innovate? This talk briefly summarises the available resources out there from online tutorials, screencasts, channels & forums to the offline books, magazines, courses, classes and user groups. Half talk, half debate, this session aims to set the scene for a discussion on the issues of supporting new users, and explore ways to do it better by sharing ideas and working together. 19:00-20:30 BREAK 20:30 Durian Open Movie sneak peeks Blender team Four team members who work on the third Open Movie "Sintel" will show some of the last animation http://durian.blender.org/ highlights and give insight in the full creation process. 22:00 END SUNDAY 30/05 MORNING SESSION 10:00 Graphic Design and the Wide Eric Schrijver Graphic design as a discipline seems to be firmly focussed on print media, leaving designing for the design http://ericschrijver.nl Open Space screen to interaction and web designers. This is a shame. As we spend more time online, public space itself is becoming digital, and in this space the pluriformity of contemporary graphic design is sorely missed. In interface and web design, aesthetic decisions by a few major software developers have a disproportionate effect on the visual landscape. 10:30 Viaduct - connecting apps and Jon A. Cruz Viaduct is a project started as a collaborative effort between Scribus and Inkscape developers. The workflow, collaboration http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Viaduct resources in a user friendly way goal is to create a set of standards, formats, APIs and helper programs to allow for simple management of creative applications and assets. Graphics professionals are used to a more seamless integration between tools, with a few commercial offerings including such "glue" software to manage and coordinate tools and their use. The Viaduct project was started to fill in the gap that exists in the free software world in this regard. 11:00 Joining Spirits with Aiki Bassel Safadi, Jon Phillips In the past, applying free software development style to web applications blocked development on web, vector, http://aikiframework.org Framework: The New Web the Open Clip Art Library. The project has nearly joined the #FAIL list multiple times. Since web collaboration http://openclipart.org Engine for Open Clip Art Library sites are centralized pieces of software running continuously, there is a need for secure access to the live code. This forces a division of managing a running website, merging software changes from developers, and keeping development on the software progressing healthily. To complicate matters, a site like Open Clip Art Library has an active base of librarians and artists uploading and editing new clipart. 11:30-12:30 Open Source Graphics and Web Nathan Willis This session will be a moderated panel discussion of some specific questions that relate to how the webservices Services: a panel discussion FOSS graphics suite can or should react to the RIA movement, which is largely non-free. In addition to and the other well-known services, Google Docs has now added a Drawing app, so RIA isn't going away. 12:30-13:30 LUNCH 13:30 CLOSING discussion Looking back and looking forward: LGM 2011?

BOF THURSDAY OpenRaster GIMP/GEGL, Krita and, finally, MyPaint teams THURSDAY What about a Libre Graphics Camille Bissuel We have LGM, FSF, , the , wonderful libre graphics softwares, LGM http://www.yagraph.org Foundation? but what about a Libre Graphics Foundation to help ours difficult projects ? FRIDAY Professional graphic designer Cédric Gémy / Elisa de Castro There are every day more and more professional using free software but they are mainly single design, workflow http://creationlibre.org meeting Guerra people sometimes difficult to find. Afgral is an association that aim to build a dynamic to promote free softwares in professional print process. What we propose isn't really a talk but more a meeting to get people be together, exchange about their experience, difficulties and try to find solution to help free software being recognized as serious alternatives. FRIDAY Fonts A general font-related session for people interested in fonts attending LGM FRIDAY colour management round table Kai-Uwe Behrmann, … SATURDAY Unified swatch file format This year we seem to have Olivier Berten of SwatchBooker on board, and Christoph mentioned possibility of an ink vendor to participate. GIMP Traditional annual GIMP meeting. Self-explanatory. SATURDAY Blender Developer roundtable Ton Roosendaal, Campbell Everyone who wants to get into Blender coding can get personal feedback from experienced animation, development Barton Blender developers, including Ton Roosendaal and Campbell Barton. WORKSHOPS / DEMOS THURSDAY, P2P design strategies Emanuele Bonetti In these workshops a group of graphic designers is asked to respond to a brief in a short time design, collaboration http://p2pdesignstrategies.parcodiyellowstone.it FRIDAY, working only using peer-to-peer methods. Each workshop is based on the previous one since they SATURDAY are first of all meant as tests to verify the validity of the methodologies. At the end of each workshop all the participants are asked to give feedback, both in an informal discussion and filling a questionnaire. Participants' reactions together with the external observations are the base for the next workshop. THURSDAY UpStage helen varley jamieson THURSDAY Webdesign or any drawing Elisa de Castro Guerra Learn how to use Inkcape for which purpose. workflow, vector (flyer, stick CD, jacket CD, interface, illustration) with Inkscape FRIDAY Scribus plugin + scripter Cedric, Andy Fitsimon workshop FRIDAY Phatch Stani Michels How to use Phatch for batch editing your pictures SATURDAY Blender Master class Durian Open Movie team Durian Open Movie team members will give art demos on using Blender to create stunning content. animation members SATURDAY A-B-C OSP Collaborative typeface design typography, collaboration

IN RESERVE Augmented Reality for Jose David Cuartas Correa [video talk] I would like to made a video conference to show the different tools available for multimedia http://sologicolibre.org/en/ Designers Artists and no designers, artists and no , to made Augmented Reality applications, based in free programmers software. The Status Project Heath Bunting Identity is constructed as ourselves as human beings, that can possess one or more natural persons mapping, visualisation http://irational.org/heath/ (straw men) and control one or more artificial persons (corporations). Most human beings have one natural person, but fail to see themselves separately or that they could possess several

Batch Commander Ricardo Lafuente Batch Commander, it's a GUI for styling *TeX files

openArtist - creative tools for florian stöffelmayr OpenArtist is a for creative people. It focuses on and features all flavours of workflow, sharing, linux http://www.openartisthq.org creative people digital arts : 2d, 3d, audio, video, vjing, hardware interfacing (arduino, robotics, reactable..). distribution OpenArtist is an ubuntu-based distribution which tries to be more recent and way more useful than e.g ubuntuStudio. It features many programs which are not available in other distributions. The one thing which sets openArtist apart from other distributions is its universal approach. It has its own, selfexplaining menu-system, comes with its own documentation, has builtIn sharing, and the preconfiguration of the system exeeds any comparable distriubtions. Professional approach to the Sanu Vamanchery Mana The development of sophisticated and “open source” Multimedia tools such as Blender, Gimp, Next Generation Game Art using Mypaint, Inkspace etc. are increasingly favoring the possibilities of exploring and experimenting Open source application creative expression in multimedia communication for the current and future industry scenario. Blender is a powerful application considering its chances of direct expression with an enhanced the artistic creativity and as a gateway for entering to three dimensional interactive applications and animated movies. Where as Gimp stands for its ultimate user friendliness to create any super cool image manipulation arts.